(Ex-libris Joseph-Ignace GUILLOTIN) Justus Fidus KLOBIUS
Ambrae historiam ad Omnipotentis Dei Gloriam, et hominum sanitatem. Exhibet, Justus Fidus Klobius D In Acad. Witteb[JOSEPH-IGNACE GUILLOTIN'S COPY – The history of the ambra, to the Glory of Almighty God and for the health of humankind. Presented by Justus Fidus Klobius, Doctor in the Academy of Wittenberg]
Héritiers de D. Tobias Mevius et E. Schumacher • Impr. de Matthaeus Henckel|Wittenberg 1666|16.3 x 20.2 cm|Relié
First edition, illustrated with four plates, including a folding world map (cf. Sinkankas 3466; Agassiz III, 370).
Full fawn calf, spine with five slender raised bands, gilt-tooled compartments with occasionally softened floral tools, rubbed gilt headcaps, brown morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle framing the pastedowns, gilt fillets to board edges, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Repairs to the spine, one joint split at head and foot, browning along the board margins with surface scratches, scattered foxing, a waterstain at the head of all leaves.
A noteworthy treatise devoted to yellow amber and above all to ambergris, the frag
€6,000
